Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option

In Brief

Google said that it is adding Venmo arsenic a outgo enactment contiguous connected Google Play for purchases including games, apps, add-ons, and different integer content.

The institution said that users tin usage Venmo’s wallet oregon different linked outgo methods, specified arsenic slope accounts and cards, to wage for subscriptions oregon extremity creators wrong antithetic content-based apps.

Users tin spell to outgo methods wrong their account’s settings to nexus a Venmo account. Google Play already offers different integer outgo methods including PayPal and Cash App on with cards from American Express, Visa, Mastercard, Discover and JCB successful the United States.

Outside the U.S., the institution has besides experimented with allowing users to wage for integer purchases utilizing cash astatine a adjacent store.

People are spending much wealth connected apps and games crossed the world. In 2025, idiosyncratic walk crossed iOS and Play Store was implicit $167 cardinal for in-app purchases, up 10.6% year-on-year, according to a study from analytics steadfast Sensor Tower.

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